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I'm supposed to be able to get a free credit report / see my score for free online from the "big 3" - TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax, once a year. It's a law. So how come they all want my credit card information in order to give me this "free" information? And why do I then have to watch my bank account like a hawk for months to make sure I don't keep getting charged for "credit monitoring" services from the site I have to go through to get the "free" reports to begin with? I've got one that charges me $9.99 a month for this service. I have called them, I have emailed them, I have asked the bank to deny the charges...but they just keep hitting my card. It's not like it's a service that doesn't exist...I can get on their website, log in, and see credit alerts and whatever...but my point is that I never asked for it and I don't want it, and they won't let me cancel. It's frigging annoying.
You know what else annoys me? The weather. 60 degrees yesterday. Howling tundra winds of icy pain today. This has been the longest winter ever and I am SO ready for it to be over.
I opened a savings account last week. I'm having $25 per paycheck dumped into it automatically. My hope is that I'll forget about it. It's an online account (INGdirect.com) with a really good interest rate. I'd highly recommend this bank if you're interested in setting up a savings account. It was quick and super-easy in addition to having the great interest rate. If I was more in tune with my finances, I'd have my whole checking account balance transferred into the account to make the interest off it, and just transfer money out for payments as necessary. That's not something I can currently handle, though.
I haven't been knitting much lately, mostly because a friend of mine got me hooked on Lost. She lent me the first 2 seasons on DVD and I can't stop watching it. It's insane. I love it and I can't stand to be without it. I never thought a TV show would do this to me...but it has. Also, on the knitting front, I've basically had to re-learn everything because it was pointed out to me that I was doing everything ass-backwards. That's been fun...not. My way was actually mostly fine...just sometimes my decreases came out looking different than everyone else's. But...since I eventually want to be able to knit lace, I suppose it's best to re-learn things the right way now.
The weather and general goings-on at both jobs have kind of got me grumpy / fed up this week. A lack of proper sleep hasn't been helping, either. I have mice in my house and I've been trying to be humane and catch the mice in little hav-a-heart type traps so I can release them far away from home. Trouble is, the mice get in the traps shortly after I go to bed, and then spend all night scuffing and bumping around in them, trying to get out...and I can hear it because my house isn't very big. It's either a) get up in the middle of the night, get dressed, hike across a field in the snow and cold and release a mouse, or b) wait till morning and do it when I'm walking the dog. I vote for B...hence the noise of the mouse keeping me up all fricking night long. I'm going to enact a new plan this weekend, though. I'm going to get a little plastic box and put some shavings in it. Then, when the mouse gets into the trap at stupid-o-clock at night, I'll just go downstairs, empty the mouse from the trap into the plastic mouse holding-pen, and go back to bed. No noise, no dead mice, and no hiking across the field in the middle of the night. Everybody wins!
You know what else annoys me? The weather. 60 degrees yesterday. Howling tundra winds of icy pain today. This has been the longest winter ever and I am SO ready for it to be over.
I opened a savings account last week. I'm having $25 per paycheck dumped into it automatically. My hope is that I'll forget about it. It's an online account (INGdirect.com) with a really good interest rate. I'd highly recommend this bank if you're interested in setting up a savings account. It was quick and super-easy in addition to having the great interest rate. If I was more in tune with my finances, I'd have my whole checking account balance transferred into the account to make the interest off it, and just transfer money out for payments as necessary. That's not something I can currently handle, though.
I haven't been knitting much lately, mostly because a friend of mine got me hooked on Lost. She lent me the first 2 seasons on DVD and I can't stop watching it. It's insane. I love it and I can't stand to be without it. I never thought a TV show would do this to me...but it has. Also, on the knitting front, I've basically had to re-learn everything because it was pointed out to me that I was doing everything ass-backwards. That's been fun...not. My way was actually mostly fine...just sometimes my decreases came out looking different than everyone else's. But...since I eventually want to be able to knit lace, I suppose it's best to re-learn things the right way now.
The weather and general goings-on at both jobs have kind of got me grumpy / fed up this week. A lack of proper sleep hasn't been helping, either. I have mice in my house and I've been trying to be humane and catch the mice in little hav-a-heart type traps so I can release them far away from home. Trouble is, the mice get in the traps shortly after I go to bed, and then spend all night scuffing and bumping around in them, trying to get out...and I can hear it because my house isn't very big. It's either a) get up in the middle of the night, get dressed, hike across a field in the snow and cold and release a mouse, or b) wait till morning and do it when I'm walking the dog. I vote for B...hence the noise of the mouse keeping me up all fricking night long. I'm going to enact a new plan this weekend, though. I'm going to get a little plastic box and put some shavings in it. Then, when the mouse gets into the trap at stupid-o-clock at night, I'll just go downstairs, empty the mouse from the trap into the plastic mouse holding-pen, and go back to bed. No noise, no dead mice, and no hiking across the field in the middle of the night. Everybody wins!
1 Comments:
I love "stupid-o-clock"
seriously, that always makes me laugh.
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